Where is everybody? - Kim Possible Discussion Forum

Topic: Where is everybody?

This has come out from several posts, but I've never seen this asked:

Where do you live?

the 'nebmeister? in the US/Texas/Dallas/Ft.Worth metroplex, just north of the D/FW International Airport in Lewisville.

y tu?

...cpneb

#1 Jun 29th 2007, 1:06pm . Edited Sep 10th 2008, 6:37am

Greenock, Scotland. Roughly 25-30 miles from Glasgow. Lived here all my life, ever since I was a tiny wee Spleenling. ;)

#2 Jun 29th 2007, 1:09pm

Brampton, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto, about 25 miles away from the big city.

#3 Jun 29th 2007, 1:25pm

Ultimate Naco Topping

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on the south shore of Lake Hefner.

#4 Jun 29th 2007, 1:55pm . Edited Jun 29th 2007, 1:55pm

Jeriddian

Midland, Texas (*sigh*).......not where I wanted to go, but......meh.....gotta go where the work is. :P

#5 Jun 29th 2007, 1:59pm

yvj

Brooklyn NY

Soon to be the best borough in New York City

#6 Jun 29th 2007, 2:03pm

Gawd... Am I the only Brit here?

#7 Jun 29th 2007, 2:05pm

Nope, Pinkymint is from the Isles as well, down the Liverpool/Manchester way I think.

#8 Jun 29th 2007, 2:07pm

captainkodak1

Me? I live outside of a little town called Elm City, NC.

#9 Jun 29th 2007, 2:08pm

Hmm... I noticed something... when it comes to nationals from outside the US, this forum provides them in pairs.

Canada - Zaratan/AtomicFire

UK - Spleen/Pinkymint

Finland - Zokolov/Sir Sebastian

Any others that I'm missing from this list?

#10 Jun 29th 2007, 2:08pm

Jeriddian

Nope, Pinkymint is from the Isles as well, down the Liverpool/Manchester way I think.

Although I think she's originally Jamaican, not native born, and just moved there a year or two ago. (Correct me if I'm wrong, Pinky!)

#11 Jun 29th 2007, 2:09pm . Edited Jun 29th 2007, 2:09pm

Zokolov

Finland, Finland, Finland...The country where I want to be...

I won't reveal the town, though.

#12 Jun 29th 2007, 2:09pm

Oh come on, at least round it out a bit. Helsinki? Turku? Tampere? I had a friend born in Kuopio, anywhere near there? Give us something. lol

#13 Jun 29th 2007, 2:13pm

Zokolov

Oh come on, at least round it out a bit. Helsinki? Turku? Tampere? I had a friend born in Kuopio, anywhere near there? Give us something. lol

Wow, you know a lot of Finnish towns...and you even spelled them correctly! I am impressed. OK, I'll reveal. It's Joensuu. It's pretty close to Kuopio...It's very close to the Russian border.

#14 Jun 29th 2007, 2:18pm

That tells me, Zokolov, that your relatives had a "bit of a time" during the Second World War. What the Finns went through was frightening to a WW II history buff, let alone the folks who lived through it; being in the US tends to make some people ignore what else happened during that confict.

Full disclosure: Native Texan, grew up in San Angelo (southwest of Midland, in West Texas where the water is in that part of the state), moved to Austin (state capital) after college, back to San Angelo where I found my beloved and the kids, and moved to the metroplex.

...cpneb

#15 Jun 29th 2007, 2:27pm

Zokolov

Ah, true. After all, there weren't any fighting on the American soil...

And yes, a lot of my relatives were forced to leave from the parts that used to be Finland...

#16 Jun 29th 2007, 2:47pm

Well, there was that litle fracas over in Hawaii that helped the country get off its tookis (hiney, rear end, a$$), and there were a few, sporadic incidents on the west coast, but not much.

The irony: the work that my dad did in the Pacific during the was, he was not allowed to do when he returned to the states: there was that minor problem of African-Americans could fight and die, they just couldn't do some jobs....

The open discrimination and prejudice is mostly gone; it's the hidden that's driving many people to distraction. (don't be surprised if I just opened up a large can of worms....)

...cpneb

#17 Jun 29th 2007, 3:11pm . Edited Jun 29th 2007, 3:32pm

Prejudice and discrimination are baf things. No question.

#18 Jun 29th 2007, 3:13pm

Well, my mind is very rarely in the vicinity of my body. . .

But my body is usually in Hillsdale, Michigan. Near Ohio and Indiana.

( If you can't see it on your map, it's probably under the fly you swatted )

As for the question of prejudice and discrimination? Almost everyone who has ever hurt, assulted, insulted, cheated, betrayed, or otherwise annoyed me had skin colour similar to my own and spoke an American version of English. So should I be disciminating against people who look like me?

#19 Jun 29th 2007, 3:26pm

Bubbahotek

I live in a galaxy far far away.

Actually I live out in the sticks in Desloge, MO about an hour south of St. Louis, MO.

Bubba

#20 Jun 29th 2007, 3:27pm

I was repeatedly called stupid and lazy, at age 6, in school, by a teacher. At the time, my dyslexia was undiagnosed.

I lost all my hair at around the same time.

Do NOT talk to me about prejudice and discrimination.

#21 Jun 29th 2007, 3:30pm

One of the intriguing things I've learned at the forum is that there are very few individuals here on this forum who have not been through some form of pain. The type is different from person to person, but the pain is still there (or at least the remnants remain). That has allowed them to understand and be the type of writers that we all enjoy reading.

It's an interesting pattern, but somewhat scary to realize....

...cpneb

#22 Jun 29th 2007, 3:35pm

Well, my old English teacher - Mr. Coton - used to always say "Write about what you know."

I know there's ceveral fics on the site (KP, BSG, Stargate) that have been at times so moving, that I've had difficulty seeing my computer screen through the tears...

#23 Jun 29th 2007, 3:38pm

TexasDad

Texarkana, Texas, 30 miles due south of the geographic center of the lower 48.

#24 Jun 29th 2007, 3:47pm

Molloy

Boxboro, Massachusetts ~ about forty-five minutes outside of Boston.

However, for both good AND ill, my emotional home is South Carolina.

#25 Jun 29th 2007, 4:36pm

Visigoth29527

Myrtle Beach, SC: the damp, hot, smelly armpit of the east. Nice place to visit, but don't move here...

As for pain/suffering, it is a rare individual indeed that hasn't caught the steel-toed boot of life in the naughty bits at least once in their life. There do seem to be a fair number here who've had some truly nasty experiences.

My own experiences? Girlfriend in college told me she was desperate for financial help. The "I don't have money to pay rent, phone bill, or buy food" kind of help. Turns out she was saving HER money to go to Europe to see another guy... That bit of life experience cost me around five hundred smackers.

One of many annoying experiences, and I'm sure everyone on here can bring up nastiness they've suffered.

#26 Jun 29th 2007, 4:50pm

AtomicFire

As our friendly host has already let slip I am from Canada...

Bridgewater, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia, Canada to be exact. Where the trees and the beaches are never more than a 20 minute drive. We actually have a beach here named Crescent you can drive on.

#27 Jun 29th 2007, 4:53pm

I currently call Latitude 42°10'37.35"N, Longitude 72°24'7.08"W home.

Also known as Wilbraham, Massachusetts.

#28 Jun 29th 2007, 5:03pm

Commander Argus

Charlotte, North Carolina - currently drowning in traffic because the city is do dead-set on building a useless light rail line in the south of town instead of improving the roads all over.

Yeah, Visigoth, I used to go to Myrtle Beach almost every year (including the winter sometimes) but the last time I was there I looked out my hotel window and realized the MB I grew up with no longer existed. You can't even see the beach for all the high-rise hotels and the only high point of that trip was a final round of the Pavillion (lost count of how many times we rode the Hurricane.) With it gone, I have utterly no connection to the place any more and have resolved to go to Tybee Island near Savannah.

I can only sympathize with living there during the various bike week festivals. I won't go near the place then, even though I'm only 4 hours away. It's bad enough hearing the roaring of the bikes on regular weekends.

#29 Jun 29th 2007, 6:31pm

Novacaine98

I live in a van down by the river.

#30 Jun 29th 2007, 7:21pm

I live in a van down by the river.

Did you get Chris Farley's old place?

If you come down to the river,

Bet you gonna find some people who live.

You dont have to worry cause you have no money,

People on the river are happy to give

#31 Jun 29th 2007, 8:10pm

VRWC

Evergreen, Colorado. Hooray for small mountain towns where you can't make the roads larger because there's big huge mountains on either side.

Though come this Fall I'll be splitting my time between Evergreen and law school in the People's Republic of Boulder.

#32 Jun 29th 2007, 8:18pm . Edited Jun 29th 2007, 8:18pm

whitem

Native Nebraskan here... And yes, I'm a Cornhusker.

Moved to Arizona in '88, so now I guess I'm considered a Native here too. The town is called Chandler, which is considered part of Phoenix. All of the citys around Phoenix are up against each other. You wouldn't know that you went into a new city if they didn't have the sign "Welcome to (put city name here)". We pretty much call the entire area "The Valley"...

That was probably too much info, but oh well...

Go Huskers! (And the Suns are going to win it all next year, I can feel it!)

#33 Jun 29th 2007, 9:21pm

JPMod

Born and raised here in New Jersey. :)

For 37 years of my life, I lived in the central area around the Interstate 78/Interstate 287 junction. Great area to live with easy access to nearby highways and great mass transit to New York City.

Now I'm living in Franklin, New Jersey, which is in the northwest corner of the state (aka Sussex County). Folks moved to PA, so I have to move to a place nearby work, so I found a nice place in Franklin and have been living here since last December.

#34 Jun 30th 2007, 8:12am

beeftony

Wow, thought I was the only Arizonan here. I was born in Phoenix, lived there for a few years, then moved to Glendale, then Peoria to live with a friend of my Mom's after my parents got their divorce. I actually lived in Chandler for a few years before moving out here to Mesa. Lived in West Mesa at first, which is the bad part of town because the Hispanics seem intent on enforcing the stereotype that wherever they go, a high crime rate follows. I currently reside in East Mesa, with all the rich Mormons (I wish I were rich; not so sure on the Mormon thing). I go to college at MCC out by Red Mountain.

#35 Jun 30th 2007, 1:28pm . Edited Jun 30th 2007, 1:29pm

Waffled Flambe

I live in Brooklyn NY

Soon to be the best borough in New York City

Soon to be? I thought it already was! :)

#36 Jun 30th 2007, 1:51pm

The Wise Duck

Just arrived (at 5:AM this morning) back home from ten days in rainy Oregon. Was born in Los Angeles and other than my military time, have spent all my time somewhere in the region. Home currently is in Lancaster in the Antelope Valley portion of the Mohave Desert (the ‘high’ desert-2500ft, in So Cal vs. the ‘low’ desert around Palm Springs-450ft) sixty miles north of downtown LA. Of course I work across the street from city hall in downtown LA—commute 72 miles one way.

#37 Jun 30th 2007, 2:10pm

Well, there are definitely some concentrations of members. I hope no one minds, but I did up a google map to highlight where everyone is. Some, where I knew a general location, just got plopped on the map somewhere near there, but for the most, it's right on the town of residence. Hell, zoom in on mine all the way, and I've got my house pinpointed! lol

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&ll=39.842286,-92.021484&spn=31.050912,59.238281&z=4&om=1&msid=110785067960586893160.00000113793898bdc448b

#38 Jul 01st 2007, 7:20am

Looks like we still have large portions of the world to conquer.

#39 Jul 01st 2007, 7:28am

If you can move my pin a bit Zaratan old chap? Zoom right in, and I'm on Union Street, roughly half way between Forsyth Street and Margaret Street. Look, I'm waving - coo-ee! :)

#40 Jul 01st 2007, 7:29am

JPMod

Interesting. Beeftony, whitem, and Sassmastergeneral can get together given they live in the same area. :)

#41 Jul 01st 2007, 7:36am

If you can move my pin a bit Zaratan old chap? Zoom right in, and I'm on Union Street, roughly half way between Forsyth Street and Margaret Street. Look, I'm waving - coo-ee! :)

I see you! Already moved!

#42 Jul 01st 2007, 7:51am

Thanks amigo. :)

#43 Jul 01st 2007, 7:53am

My pin is a little off too. It marks the town center, while the coordinates I gave point right at my house, in the extreme NE corner of town.

#44 Jul 01st 2007, 7:57am

I did up a google map to highlight where everyone is

Kind of reminds me of Joss's "Kim" map from "Showdown At The Crooked D"

#45 Jul 01st 2007, 8:59am

SassMasterGeneral

Wow, thought I was the only Arizonan here. I was born in Phoenix, lived there for a few years, t

Not by a long shoot after living the OC from 40 years, right no one lives the OC, I moved to Mesa, AZ were anyone can buy a house. :)

#46 Jul 01st 2007, 9:15am

Jeriddian

Nice Job, Z! I like it.

#47 Jul 01st 2007, 9:21am

BluetoothThePirate

I'm in southeast Michigan, the state that offered Canada a high-five, and has been left hanging ever since.

#48 Jul 01st 2007, 9:24am

state that offered Canada a high-five, and has been left hanging Canada thought somebody should look competent.

#49 Jul 01st 2007, 9:29am